[Music] About you and your music

[Deleted]

Just wanted to know what artists interest you, what is your lifestyle and which artists inspire you, im aware people may not feel comfortable disclosing too much information but put as much or as little as you like I'll start.

About me, names Aaron, 24 years of age, live in the UK I work in a Hotel, when im not working I like to run, I live by a busy airport so when im out running I see a lot of amazing scenery, music plays a big part in my life when im running or at home doing other things (playing games) etc

Artists and bands I adore:

Ash
Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
Muse
Owl City
Snow Patrol
The Temper Trap

Artists and bands I like:

Aerosmith
Alice Deejay
Avicii
Bloc Party
Bowling for Soup
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Dragonforce
Embrace
Feeder
Flo Rider
Foo Fighters
Girls Aloud
Greenday
Keane
Katy Perry
Kings of Leon
Leona Lewis
Manic Street Preachers
Metallica
Nicki Minaj
Pendulum
Razorlight
Rihanna
Starsailor
The Pigeon Detectives
The Strokes

Artists I dislike

50 Cent
Eminem
Jessie J
Justin Bieber

I dont personally hate any of the artists I dislike either, there only doing what they do and that's sing, if people like their music then fair play to them but its just not for me

Lets keep this thread clean please, i.e no slating people for their music taste or a particular atist.

[Rampant Rabbit]

My name is Eric, 21 years old and I live in The Netherlands. Music has always been a big part of my life. Wouldn't know how to live without it. I'm about to start my Bachelor's Degree for my Audio Engineering study at the SAE and currently I help my friends organize House / Tech-House / Minimal parties at DJ bars & Clubs in Amsterdam. You'll see that I have quite the wide music taste. You can check my last.fm for more info.


Artists and bands I adore:
DJ's:
Robag Wruhme
Aphex Twin
Scuba
Burial
Johannes Heil
Egbert
Laurent Garnier
Richie Hawtin/Plastikman
Unicorn Kid
Sensorica
Swarms
BT

Bands/Artists:
Bon Iver
Ben Frost
Tim Hecker
Jean Michel Jarre
David Darling
Brian Eno
Deaf Center
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Karnivool
Machinae Supremacy
The Black Keys
The Black Angels
The Doors
The National
Frightened Rabbit
M83
The American Dollar
The Antlers
Biffy Clyro
Oceansize
Tenacious D


Artists and bands I like:
DJ's:
Daniel Mehlhart
Pan-Pot
Dubfire
Extrawelt
UMEK
dOP
Gary Beck
Nic Fanciulli
Mark Fanciulli
John Roberts
Minilogue
Pleasurekraft
Paul Kalkbrenner
Reboot
Krampfhaft
Amon Tobin
Apparat
Blockhead
Kid Koala
RJD2
Robot Koch
Sabrepulse
Volor Flex


Bands/Artists:
Tool
Mnemosyne
Wolfmother
Ufomammut
The Velvet Underground
The Small Faces
Jimi Hendrix
Van Morrison
The Temper Trap
Coldplay
Stone Sour
Against Me!
Crystal Castles
Louis Armstrong
Chuck Mangione
Lady Gaga
Le Le
M.I.A.
Mobb Deep
ODB
The Naked And Famous
Nico Stai
Pink Floyd
The Who
Vangelis


Artists I dislike:
David Guetta
Swedish House Mafia
Skrillex
Any hardcore/screamo/sludge/doom band.

[JohnBrown1917]

I'm 18 years old, I only recently started listing to music(early 2011 when I created my last.fm account)(as in "whole albums" instead of random playlists on youtube).

Artists and bands I adore:
Between the buried and me(Prog metal)
Protest the hero(post-hardcore/prog metal)
A lot like birds(Post-hardcore/prog rock)
The ocean(sludge/prog metal)
The doors(psyrock)
Heaven shall burn(melodeath/deathcore)
Radiohead(alt rock)
High on fire(stoner/doom metal)
Alice in Chains(grunge/metal)
Pink Floyd(prog rock)
Judas priest(speed metal)
Church of Misery(stoner/doom metal)
Boris(stoner/drone/experimental metal)
The fall of troy(prog post-hardcore)
Refused(post-hardcore)

Artists I like
Pretty much anything with more than 10 plays

[Deleted]

I'm 18, hungarian, last year high school student, learning physics.

I am a music enthusiast, I know a rather large amount of bands from many many genres and I care a lot more about music than just casual listening.

Although I like way more bands than that, my interests can generally be separated to two categories.
One side of me like simple, catchy but very aggressive and angry music, mainly hardcore punk and its derivatives like (good) metalcore and deathcore, the other side of me likes anything esoteric, mystical, gloomy, epic (in the right sense), vague, obscure with surreal/dreamlike soundscapes. This type of stuff generally includes atmospheric black or doom metal, shoegaze, post-rock, drone, dark ambient and similiar genres. But I also like tons of electronica and various metal genres not covered in the above.

Bands I adore:

Alcest (blackgaze)
Arcturus (avantgarde/experimental black metal)
As I Lay Dying (metalcore)
August Burns Red (tech metalcore)
Between The Buried and Me (prog metalcore)
Dissection (melodic black metal)
Distance (dubstep)
Emperor (symphonic/atmospheric black metal)
Heaven Shall Burn (metalcore)
Iced Earth (US power metal)
Ion Dissonance (tech deathcore/mathcore)
Katatonia (death/doom metal)
Long Distance Calling (post-rock)
Misery Signals (prog metalcore)
My Bloody Valentine (shoegaze)
NiT GriT (dubstep)
Opeth (extreme prog metal)
Sacramentum (melodic black metal)
Slowdive (shoegaze)
Summoning (atmospheric black metal)

Bands I like:
All Shall Perish (deathcore)
Animosity (deathcore)
Arsis (tech melodeath)
As Blood Runs Black (deathcore)
Augury (tech/prog death metal)
Austere (depressive black metal/blackgaze)
Born of Osiris (prog deathcore)
Burial (dubstep/post-dubstep)
Burning The Masses (tech deathcore)
Caliban (metalcore)
Converge (metalcore/mathcore)
Dark Angel (thrash metal)
Dawn (melodic black metal)
Dawn of Ashes (dark industrial/ebm/aggrotech)
Deafheaven (blackgaze)
Death (death metal/prog death/prog thrash)
Despised Icon (tech deathcore)
Dimmu Borgir (symphonic black metal/extreme symphonic metal)
Forest Stream (atmospheric doom metal)
If These Trees Could Talk (post-rock)
Integrity (metalcore)
Ixion (atmospheric doom metal)
Les Discrets (post-rock/blackgaze)
Lustmord (dark ambient)
Moss (drone/doom)
Nevermore (prog US power metal)
Neptune Towers (dark ambient)
Neurotech (industrial metal)
Parkway Drive (metalcore)
Pendulum (drum & bass/electronic rock)
Rites of Spring (emo/post-hardcore)
Saetia (screamo/post-hardcore)
Samael (black metal/industrial metal)
Shai Hulud (hardcore/metalcore)
Shem (dubstep/drum & bass)
Sick Of It All (hardcore/crossover)
SikTh (prog metalcore)
Skream (dubstep)
Slayer (thrash metal)
Sleepmakeswaves (post-rock)
Sub Focus (drum & bass)
Sun Devoured Earth (blackgaze)
Sunn O))) (drone/doom)
Tears Run Rings (shoegaze)
The Contortionist (prog deathcore)
The Faceless (tech deathcore/tech death metal)
Through The Eyes Of The Dead (tech deathcore)
Thy Art Is Murder (deathcore)
Unearth (metalcore)
War From A Harlots Mouth (tech metalcore/deathcore)
Woods of Desolation (depressive black metal/blackgaze)
Zao (hardcore/metalcore)


And MANY others whom I just can't recall now, not to mention this list would be obesely long.


Bands I don't like:
Most euroflower metal bands.
Almost all glam metal/cock rock bands.
Most bands/artists who are/sell products rather than sincere music. One does not play good music without inspiration.
Most of the nowadays trendy post-hardcore/metalcore hybrid bands except a few (From Autumn To Ashes, Adept, Sienna Skies).
Most nowadays popular pop singers.

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Jay, 36 Southampton UK, unemployed layabout and leech on economy :P


Artists and bands I adore -

PEARL JAM
TOOL
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
BJORK
TORI AMOS
COUNTING CROWS
PENDULUM

Artists and bands I like -

Sara Bareilles
Florence and the Machine
Kelly Clarkson
Pink
Metallica
Slipknot
Korn
StoneSour
Skrillex
Evanescence
Paramore
Jimmy Eat World
Paloma Faith
The Cure
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Ed Sheeran
Hoobastank
Aerosmith
Biffy Clyro
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Johnny Cash
Snow Patrol
Incubus
Stone Temple Pilots
The Who
The Doors
Black Crowes
Elton John
Michael Kiwanuka
Bruce Springsteen
Imogen Heap
Linkin Park
Public Enemy
Pulp
Alanis Morissette
Colbie Caillat

Artists I dislike -

Lady Gaga
Beyoncé
Coldplay
Anything from UK X-Factor
Drake
Rihanna
Jessie J

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Artists and bands I like -

Sara Bareilles

Awesome! you reminded me of this! xD

[Jackmoves]

Matt, Sweden, 27, currently a student in University, I've always been massivly into music, started my first band as a 12 year old, played in various bands with mates until I was 17-18 years old, by that time my interest had shifted and I was predominantly into house and techno rather then rock/indie... it had been my faverite genres since I was 14-15 though and I used to spend every friday afternoon after school listening to the latest batch of vinyl at my local record store. At 17-18 I bought my first set of decks and a mixer and started to practise Djing, I had already an extensive vinyl/record collection since I had spent most of my money on records for years already.

Started to hang out on different message boards/forums and learned to know quite a few people that way, I still remember the first demo version of Call on me as it got posted on one of the small local forums I visited/posted on, classic :P. Miss that forum, it was really small and closeknit and it's quite cool to see how great things went for quite a few of the guys who were posting on it back then, Eric Prydz, Samuel Larsson(Sam L Session), Steve Angello, Seb Ingrosso, Adam Beyer, Joel Mull, Rasmus Faber, Özgür Can etc...

Always gone to a lot of live shows and festivals as well of course.

Anyways, been involved in organizing parties and played records as well... not much nowdays though to be frank, still play around at home and I still buy a shitload of music. Not much vinyl nowdays though, it's all about beatport etc

Hard to list everything I love tbh... but I'll just write down whats on top of my mind...

Faverite DJs:

Desyn Masiello
Danny Howells
Sasha
John Digweed
Sven Väth(mad mothereffer)
Dana Bergqvist(best swedish DJ by a longshot)
Tiga
Laurent Garnier


House/Techno Producers:
Vincenzo
Felix Da Housecat
Still Going
Loco Dice
Random Factor
Halo
Hipp-e
The Revenge
Slam
Silicone Soul
Ron Basejam
Jimpster
Thugfucker
Crazy P
Charlie May
Todd Terje
Ilija Rudman
Dominik Eulberg
Tuff City Kids
Charles Webster
Nick Chacona
Tensnake
Oliver Lieb
Solomun
James Holden
Aril Brikha

etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc (soooo much good music both old and new)

Artist/Bands:
The Knife
Kate Bush
Black rebel motorcycle club
The Embassy
Jose Gonzales
Shout Out Louds
James Blake
The Smiths
Primal Scream
Depeche Mode
Veronica Maggio
Babyshambles
Prince
M83
Studio
Hans Zimmer
Morrissey
Smokey Robinson
Ulrich Schnauss
Bloc Party
Youth Group
Joy Division
Death Cab For Cutie
The Postal Service
DMX Krew
Silverbullit
Imogen Heap
Junior Boys
Kent
Marvin Gaye
Unkle
Placebo
New Order
Underworld

(probably forgot to list some faves hehe)

This is just scratching the surfice really, I love a lot of old 80s, old italo disco, motown funk, some hip-hop etc

I've probably bought records for 4000-5000 $ each year for the last 7-8 years... :P

Some of my records.

[Deleted]

Jay, 18, London, I'm a student (Scandinavian studies).

Things I love.
Jethro Tull
Johnny Cash
Neil Young
Daft Punk
Tiesto

Things I like.
Rush
Green Day
The Beatles (only the later stuff)
Levellers
Alice in Chains
Paramore
The Prodigy
Faith and the Muse
Evanescence
Deadmau5
Pentangle
Jimi Hendrix
Tom Waits
Ellie Goulding
Portishead
Baushaus
Inkubus Sukkubus
Fairport convention
Seasick Steve
Pendulum
Gorrilaz
La Roux
Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley
Hayseed Dixie
Florence and the Machine
The xx
Clanned
Damh the Bard
Slipknot
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath

Things I dislike
Rap
Dubstep
Mass produced crap
Boring every album sounds the same (coldplay et al)
Death Metal
Emo crap

[Callace]

The doors(psyrock)

Is that what it's called now? No wonder I can't find anything,

God I'm old.

[WaitingforMoP]

Fun topic idea here

I'm an unemployed 23 year old drummer :P I can also do vocals but not greatly... just ok and have a decent grasp of playing keyboard too

Bands/Artists I especially adore :
Death
Metallica
Lady Gaga
Trivium
The Black Dahlia Murder
Children of Bodom
From First To Last
Asking Alexandria
The Used
Afi
Mastodon

Bands/Artists I Like :
WAY too many to list, basically every band and artists that any normal person could think of that isn't in the adore/dislike section

Bands/Artists I dislike :
Blood On The Dancefloor
Jeffree Star
BrokeNCYDE
Cody Simpson
Lana Del Rey
LMFAO
Flo Rida
Jack White/White Stripes

[Phuongvi]

Band I adore

Helloween
Versailles
Overkill
Slayer
Grendel
Amduscia
The Kovenant
Dark Tranquillity
Destruction
Hyprocrisy
Samael
Old Man's Child
Steel Panther
Testament


Band I like

Motley Crue
Bon Jovi
Honeymoon suite
In Flames (old in flames)
Emperor
Dimmu Borgir
At The gates
Dissection
Sonic Syndicate
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Pain
Guns and rose
Metal in general,
EBM in general

Things I don't like

Commercial ( radio or Mtv) fast food music
ACDC
Nirvanna or grunge in general
Any hippies band
Opeth
power Metal band with a front girl, Lacuna coil, Nightwish

[Fuzzzie]

I get it.

I could also list a lot of bands and such. There are just so many of these threads already. I feel like this can be covered in the `What are you listening to know`

Personalizing in this forum is only going to happen if we trasition from listing songs to an actual discussion.